The specific heat capacity at fixed pressure and composition is , where is specific enthalpy. Equivalently, it is heat capacity at constant pressure divided by mass. Under the process assumptions in heat capacity, it includes expansion work as well as the internal energy change. The sensible heat example uses this response separately for ice and water.
For pure blackbody radiation, depends only on temperature. Constant pressure therefore fixes temperature, so a usual finite constant-pressure temperature derivative is unavailable. In the material gas-radiation limit the specific-heat ratio diverges, although all three stellar adiabatic exponents approach . The radiation index is an adiabatic pressure-volume response, not a finite heat-capacity ratio.
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